C
Clueless in Seattle
I'm disabled by chronic health problems that make it difficult for me to sit
up for very long and require me to spend a lot of time lying in bed resting.
I recently received from a kind acquaintance an older laptop that's running
Windows XP Home.
I've been trying to connect it in a peer-to-peer network with my much older
desktop computer which is running Windows 2K Pro.
I'd like to use the laptop from bed to access the files on my desk machine.
I used to work this way with an older laptop running Win 2K, but the screen
backlight on that laptop failed months ago, so I can no longer work from that
machine. However I still have it connected in a peer-to-peer network with
the desktop machine and use its hard drive to back up files from the desktop.
So, I know that the desktop machine is capable of and is configured properly
for networking with another machine as long as both machines are running Win
2K.
I just can't figure out how to get it to network with the XP machine.
up for very long and require me to spend a lot of time lying in bed resting.
I recently received from a kind acquaintance an older laptop that's running
Windows XP Home.
I've been trying to connect it in a peer-to-peer network with my much older
desktop computer which is running Windows 2K Pro.
I'd like to use the laptop from bed to access the files on my desk machine.
I used to work this way with an older laptop running Win 2K, but the screen
backlight on that laptop failed months ago, so I can no longer work from that
machine. However I still have it connected in a peer-to-peer network with
the desktop machine and use its hard drive to back up files from the desktop.
So, I know that the desktop machine is capable of and is configured properly
for networking with another machine as long as both machines are running Win
2K.
I just can't figure out how to get it to network with the XP machine.